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that has been destroyed.

We can open this gift together.

- What's going on?

- Why did you bring up my dad?

Well, he didn't run away.

Okay, my mum just had to

distance herself from him.

- Huh. To save the family.

- He wasn't a terrorist.

- I didn't say he was.

- You said he was a terrorist.

- Did I? Well,

I suppose you could see it

that way.

I mean, he was about to

assassinate a diplomat.

- He was a freedom fighter.

Celia, there's a difference.

- Sure, it was

a really cool way to go.

A lot better than my dad...

jumping off a cliff.

- Jumping.

- He committed suicide.

- Well, that's new.

I thought the story was my mom

pushed him off the cliff.

- Story.

You think l'm making up a story?

- No, it's...

it's not what I meant.

- Raffi, l'm saying

that what happened

to my father matters.

I know that no one else cares,

but it matters to me.

- Well, then how

do I make it matter,

what happened to my father?

- You just do.

- How?

- You go there.

And you stick it in here.

And you listen to it beat.

Beat all night, all day.

That way, you never forget.

- Mount Ararat.

When I was a boy,

my mother used to tell me

this was ours.

Even though it was so far away.

And I used to dream

of a way to approach it,

to make it belong to who I was,

to who I became.

- Marty,

this book is the key

to your character.

It's the actual journal

of Clarence Ussher,

published in Boston

and New York in 1917.

Every scene in this film

is based on this document.

Think of it.

It is the true story

of a man who sees

an entire community wiped out

and is sickened by it.

So... so you can't play it...

- l've read this book.

As well as every available

piece of archival material

that so much as hints

at the region or these people

or the Armenian genocide.

I'm currently rereading

the Bible with Ussher in mind,

so beyond that,

it's pretty much...

up to my imagination.

And now l'm here

to make a film with Edward...

Saroyan.

Okay?

- This painting was very,

very popular even 100 years ago,

when it was painted.

And it's very popular now.

People love this painting.

And I think it's because...

because it's such a warm, safe

picture of two little kids.

We get the feeling that these

two kids in front of the fire,

warming themselves

after their bath...

- How'd it go?

- Think it went great.

- Did you get it?

Did he like you?

- I think so.

[Ring!]

Hello.

Yeah. Oh my God!

Oh my God!

- Good news?

- He just got a big part.

In a movie.

- Let me call you right back.

'Cause l'm in a gallery

and I can't really talk.

- Do you play a good guy

or a bad guy?

- I play a very, very,

very bad man.

Rah!!!

Rah!

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